Inquests
| Title | Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Date | COD Inquest Finding | COD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The State vs. the Dead Body of James Harmon |
near[?] Nichara[?] Gordon's
|
Natural Causes | March 4, 1841 |
upon their oaths do say that they cannot find no marks of Violence upon him and he died by the visitation of god in a natural way and not otherwise |
Unknown | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Joseph Hughes |
at the house of James A. Price
|
Homicide | July 25, 1853 |
upon their oaths do say that James A. Price did . . .at his own house in the said District with a club, stick or board hit the said Joseph Hughes over the head inflicting three severe wounds in the forehead and bruising the head nearly all over |
Blunt Instrument | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Siller |
at an oald wast house in the plantation of Mrs Susannah Turners
|
Accident | November 12, 1842 |
upon their oaths do say, that . . .the said Siller axcidently caught fire in her beding whilst a sleep, and from inability to help her Self ware burned to death |
Burns | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of child | Unknown | November 12, 1824 | ||||
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Miles Hart | Unknown | |||||
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Thompson |
at Thomas Spencers
|
Homicide | April 1, 1863 |
upon their oaths do say that the said Thompson was felloniously and maliciously homicideed by some person with an axe by a blow on the head, and the evidence before us justifies us in finding that the boy Henry was at least accessory to the decd |
Sharp Instrument | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Enoch McLean |
at Wm C. Brown's
|
Accident | August 27, 1840 |
upon their oaths do say . . .came to his death by misfortune or accident |
Drowning | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Ryefield |
near the Island Ford on Broad River
|
Accident | October 24, 1846 |
upon their oaths do say That they suppose the body before them to be that of the younger Ryefield drowned at Smiths Ford some days back, and that the deceased came to his death by accidental drowning |
Drowning | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Charles |
at Kings W Iron Co[?] Rolling Mill
|
Accident | July 1, 1854 |
upon their oaths do say that the say Boy Charles. . . came to his death by misfortune or accident |
Other | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of W. J. Summers |
at Goshen[?] Hill
|
Accident | August 18, 1843 |
upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by the kick of a mule the property of the Father of the deceased |
Animal | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Henry Woolbright |
at Wm. C. Brown's near Howell's Ferry
|
Homicide | October 26, 1843 |
upon their oaths do say that the said Henry Woolbright died in consequence of [?] abuse recd from his Father Tom Woolbright & from neglect at Various times by especially from the abuse recd . . .by certain strokes & blows inflicted by Thomas Woolbright at their own house |
Blunt Instrument | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Tom |
brawd River Makes[?] Mill
|
Accident | February 5, 1861 |
have come to the decision that the boy with others was washed from a small boat in the early part of the night of the fouth in attempting to cross the river . . .got gast[?] in a [?] trap and perished from cold |
Transportation | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Unknown |
at the Dwelling house of Saml J. Hocy[?]
|
Unknown | June 25, 1823 | |||
| The State vs. the Dead Body of John Findley |
at [??] ferrey
|
Accident | March 22, 1819 |
do say upon their oaths that . . .he came to his Death by atemping to Cross the River at horvels[?] ferry alone when in Liquer and by Mischance was Drowned |
Drowning | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Gabriel Gibson |
at Elbethel Meeting house
|
Accident | April 18, 1819 |
Doe say upon their oaths that . . .Gabriel Gibson Came to his End By Mischance & Say that he was Spliting Roling Down A Decent |
Fall | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Flora |
at Isaac Pearsons
|
Suicide | May 14, 1815 |
do say upon their oaths Not having God before her eyes but being seduced and moved by the instigation of the devil . . .in a Negro house . . .with a certain Blind Bridle of the Value of One Dollar which she . . .put about her neck and the other end thereof she looped around one of the Joist of the said Negro house and herself ... voluntarily and feloniously and of her malice aforethough hanged and suffocated |
Hanging | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Mary Gee |
at Peterson Gee
|
Suicide | June 12, 1848 |
do say upon the oaths . . .that we believe Mary E Gee . . .did commit Fellony on herself by hanging herself by the neck with a rope |
Hanging | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Cole |
near the house of William Cole
|
Homicide | November 18, 1827 | Infanticide | ||
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Bill |
at Capt. John Thomas Hooey on Broad River
|
Accident | June 20, 1830 |
do say upon their oaths that . . .the said boy came to his untimely death by accidentally getting drowned |
Drowning | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of David Wilson | Unknown | |||||
| The State vs. the Dead Body of John Jackson |
at own Dweling
|
Suicide | July 17, 1810 |
say on there Oaths that we Belive the Said John Jackson for [?] and of the [?] of [?] and the instagation of the Divel homicideed him Self Shooting him Self with a Rifle Gun the Ball Entered into his head a Small Distance above his Right Ey Reanging[?] into his Brain |
Firearm | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Charlotte |
at the house of Samuel I. Hary[?]
|
Suicide | June 25, 1825 |
do say upon their oaths that. . .the decd came to her death by the forms[?] of a shot gun loaded with powder and shot. The [?] passing through the right hand and lodging in the right breast a little above the nipple. . . we believe the deceased was handling and [?] the said shot gun |
Firearm | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Mordicae Bloice |
at the flat [?] of Edylis[?]
|
Accident | May 14, 1818 |
upon their oaths do say . . . that the deceased Mordica Bloice came to his death by accidental drowning |
Drowning | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of Josephine A. Brookes Thrift |
at Delila Jenkinses
|
Accident | March 28, 1860 |
upon their oaths do say . . .that the child came to its death by being smothered by its mother by accident |
Suffocation | |
| The State vs. the Dead Body of James Baldwin |
at William Dilliard's plantation
|
Accident | June 8, 1825 |
do say upon their oaths that the said James Baldwin came to his death by an accident, occasioned by his elder brother Henry Baldwin tying a Rope around his the said James Baldwin neck and fastening one end of said rope to a [?] fastened in the joist and the said Henry going off and leaving of it in that situation ... as a reason for tying the said child was that he was subject to eating of dirt and Salt[?] and that his brother done it to prevent him from getting the same whilst he was in the field at work |
Suffocation |
